Titans complete top football staff; take interim tag of coach Mularkey … Tennessee, which has the #1 pick overall that the 2016 draft, announced earlier today that interim head coach Mike Mularkey has been given the job full-time. Mularkey replaced ken Whisenhunt mid-way through the season and led the Titans to a 2-7 record down the stretch. The… Read More »
Tide DE to return; other underclassmen notes … In a bit of a surprise, Alabama junior DE Jon Allen has announced that he will be returning to school for his senior season. Allen had been considered by many analysts to be a first-round prospect for this year’s draft after he lead the national champs with 12 sacks despite… Read More »
Shrine week preview … This weekend former college football players will be arriving in Tampa, St. Petersburg and a few other West Central Florida airports to begin taking part in this week’s East-West Shrine Game activities with the 0first practices set for Monday afternoon, after a closed weigh-in session earlier in the day. The rest of the week… Read More »
‘Who caught Pigskins eye’ in college football bowls, Part deux … GBN resident college football guru Pigskin Paul Guillemette reports on the latest batch of prospects who caught his eye on tape during this year’s big bowl games.
Tide’s Henry, NT Robinson enter draft … Alabama juniors Derrick Henry, the RB who won this year’s Heisman Trophy, and NT A’Shawn Robinson, both announced they will forego their senior seasons and enter the 2016 draft, at a joint press conference at the school this afternoon. Henry is projected to be a second round pick, while Robinson currently… Read More »
Star game roster updates … Maryland junior DT Quinton Jefferson and Kansas State FB Glenn Gronkowski, a pair of 4th year juniors who have already graduated, along with Michigan State DE Lawrence Thomas and North Dakota State OT Joe Haeg have been added to the Senior Bowl roster, while Wisconsin OT Tyler Marz and Texas State CB David… Read More »
Tide juniors presser announced … Alabama has announced that the school will host a press conference at 3 PM ET tomorrow at which time the Tide’s several draft-eligible underclassmen will announce their decisions re the 2016 draft. In fact, there are reports that junior RB Derrick Henry, this year’s Heisman Trophy winner, has already decided to enter the… Read More »
CSU Rams’ WR enters draft … Seems we neglecfed to mention that Colorado State junior Rashard Higgins has entered the 2016 draft where he figureds to be a late third or early 4th round pick. The 6-1, 190-pound Higgins averaged 80 receptions per in his three years at CSU including a record-setting 96 catches for 1.750 yards and… Read More »
Top SEC DBs to stay in school … Both Alabama S/CB Eddie Jackson and Tennessee junior CB Cameron Sutton indicated earlier today that they will be returning to school for their senior seasons next fall. On the other hand, Utah State junior ILB Nick Vigil has finally confirmed that he will in fact be entering this year’s draft… Read More »
Chip Kelly to coach 49ers … In a bit of a surprise, San Francisco has signed Chip Kelly as the team’s new head coach. Kelly was fired before the final game of the season by Philadelphia. What makes the signing interesting from a draft perspective is that it was pretty much a given that the 49ers would cut… Read More »
Browns get Cincy OC as new head coach … For those that missed it last evening, Cleveland has signed Hue Jackson to be the team’s new head coach. Jackson, who had a previous head coaching stint with Oakland in 2011, has been offensive co-ordinator with Cincinnati the past several years. With the hiring of Jackson, who has is… Read More »
Michigan DT in draft; Toledo RB out … With just 4 days to go until the deadline for underclassmen to file paperwork with the NFL in order to be eligible for the 2016 draft, Michigan DT Willie Henry has become the latest junior to decide to throw his hat into the ring. While not exactly a household name,… Read More »
Big Board updated … With the college season now in the books, the GBN Big Board ranking of the top 150-plus prospects for the 2016 draft has been updated and expanded. Note that while this ranking does include some element of our own evaluation of the individual players, the Big Board is primarily designed to give our best… Read More »
Auburn OT in draft; Bama edge rusher out … No underclassman thinking about entering the 2016 draft appears to have been more conflicted than Alabama junior DE/OLB Tim Williams. Williams, one of the most disruptive edge rushers in the country who had 10.5 sacks this fall coming off the bench, originally indicated back in early December that he… Read More »
Soph CB 4th Tiger to turn pro today … Just hours after junior DE Kevin Dodd and safeties Jayron Kearse and T.J. Green announced they were entering the 2016 draft, redshirt sophomore CB Mackensie Alexander also let it be known that he was turning pro. They join DE Shaq Lawson and OLB Travis Banks, both of whom had… Read More »
Clemson loses three more to draft … Three more Clemson players announced earlier today that they will be entering the draft including FS Jayron Kearse, DE Kevin Dodd and safety T.J. Green. Kearse, who figures to be one of the top 2-3 safeties in this year’s draft, had been expected to make the decision to go pro, but… Read More »
With the regular season of the NFL over, many of the teams that failed to get into the post-season are already looking ahead to the 2016 Draft. However, with so many picks for each team, they must feel like they are playing the pokies when it comes to choosing who they want. The similarities between gambling and the… Read More »
You can in fact go home again … The on-again, off-again saga of the NFL’s return to Los Angeles is half done after league owners voted to allow the Rams to move back to LA after a 21-year stay in St. Louis. The Rams will play in an as yet undecided location in L.A. in 2016 before moving… Read More »
List of underclassmen in draft climbs past 90 … Three more juniors announced they will be entering the 2016 draft so far today including Baylor DT Andrew Billings, UCLA TE Thomas Duarte and Delaware P Eric Enderson. Billings, a potential top 15-20 prospect for the upcoming draft had long been thought to be headed to this year’s draft;… Read More »
Clock ticking louder for undeclared underclassmen … Alabama closed out the college football season last night edging Clemson 45-40 in a thriller to win its 4th national title in the last 7 years. All eyes now turn to the half dozen or so Alabama juniors who are known to be thinking seriously about entering the 2016 draft including… Read More »
Falcon WR flying off to NFL … Bowling Green sophomore WR Roger Lewis has announced he will be entering the 2016 draft. For those who have not heard of Lewis, he’s been a super-productive big-play receiver in his two years with the Falcons. This past season, for example, the 6-1, 200-pound Lewis, who projects to run in the… Read More »
Top Tigers in uniform … With the kick-off for tonight’s national championship game between Alabama and Clemson just under a half an hour to go, it appears that Clemson’s top two prospects for the 2016 draft – junior DE Shaq Lawson and redshirt sophomore CB Mackensie Alexander – will both give it a go. Both were listed as… Read More »
Aggie LB to enter draft?? There are some very unconfirmed reports that Utah State junior ILB Nick Vigil has decided to enter the upcoming draft. Our investigative reporter is working his sources as we speak and we’ll update ASAP.
Positional rankings updated … A little later than we had planned, but the GBN positional rankings have now all been updated. Perhaps the biggest changes were at safety, although this is still not a particularly talented or deep year at the position. In putting together the latest rankings – and we make the point that while we do… Read More »
That settles that: injured Irish LB enters draft … Notre Dame junior OLB Jaylon Smith announced earlier this morning that he would in fact be entering the 2016 draft. Smith, of course, had been considered to be a potential top 5 pick this year, but underwent surgery late last week after he tore an ACL in the Irish’s… Read More »
